In 2005 Jeon burst back into the limelight playing a prostitute who contracts AIDS in Park Jin-pyo's hard-hitting melodrama You Are My Sunshine.[9][10][11] The performance helped turn the film into a box-office hit (3 million+ admissions), and also won her yet more additions to her collection of local acting awards.[3] She then returned to television in Lovers in Prague which depicts the love story between the president's daughter and an ordinary detective; the drama averaged over 27 percent viewership ratings.[12] In Korea, it is rare for a movie and a TV drama with the same leading actor or actress to become major hits at the same time, but Jeon managed to pull both roles off perfectly without causing any confusion in the audience.[13]

After making the charming, laidback road movie My Dear Enemy post-Cannes,[20][21][22][23][24] Jeon gave birth to a daughter and rested for a while. In 2010, she re-established her status as Korea's premier A-list actress, headlining the controversial remake The Housemaid.[25][26]

In 2015, Jeon starred in The Shameless, a thriller that explores the unexpected and carnal attraction that develops between a detective and the girlfriend of the murderer he's investigating.[37][38][39][40] She then played a blind swordswoman in the Goryeo-set revenge period drama Memories of the Sword (2015), her third collaboration with Park Heung-sik.[41][42] This was followed by Jeon's second film with director Lee Yoon-ki, A Man and a Woman, about a forbidden romance that takes place in the snow-swept landscape of Finland.[43][44]

Jeon returned to the small screen in the Korean remake of the American legal drama The Good Wife in 2016.[45][46]

Jeon was then cast in the film Birthday, a film focuses on the events of the Sinking of the Sewol Ferry.[47]

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Korean name
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A Korean name consists of a family name followed by a given name, as used by the Korean people in both South Korea and North Korea. In the Korean language, ireum or seongmyeong usually refers to the family name, traditional Korean family names typically consist of only one syllable. There is no name in the English language sense. Many Koreans have their names made of a generational name syllable. The generational name syllable is shared by siblings in North Korea, married men and women usually keep their full personal names, and children inherit the fathers family name. The family names are subdivided into bongwan, i. e. extended families which originate in the system used in previous historical periods. Each clan is identified by a place, and traces its origin to a common patrilineal ancestor. During periods of Mongol influence, the ruling class supplemented their Korean names with Mongolian names, some keep the original order of names, while others reverse the names to match the usual Western pattern. Fewer than 300 Korean family names were in use in 2000, for various reasons, there is a growth in the number of Korean surnames. Each family name is divided into one or more clans, identifying the city of origin. For example, the most populous clan is Gimhae Kim, that is, clans are further subdivided into various pa, or branches stemming from a more recent common ancestor, so that a full identification of a persons family name would be clan-surname-branch. Traditionally, Korean women keep their names after their marriage. In the premodern, patriarchal Korean society, people were extremely conscious of familial values, Korean women keep their surnames after marriage based on traditional reasoning that it is what they inherited from their parents and ancestors, and cannot be changed. According to traditions, each clan publishes a comprehensive genealogy every 30 years, around a dozen two-syllable surnames are used, all of which rank after the 100 most common surnames. The five most common names, which together make up over half of the Korean population, are used by over 20 million people in South Korea. After the 2015 census, it was revealed that family names were becoming more common in South Korea. Between 2000 and 2015, more than 4,800 new surnames were registered, during the census, a total of 5,582 distinct surnames were collected, 73% of which do not have corresponding hanja characters. It was also revealed that despite the surge in the number of surnames, the ratio of top 10 surnames had not changed

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2014 Cannes Film Festival
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The 67th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2014. New Zealand film director Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the competition section. The Palme dOr was awarded to the Turkish film Winter Sleep directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the festival opened with the long delayed Grace of Monaco, directed by Olivier Dahan and starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly, which played out of competition. The restored 4K version of Sergio Leones 1964 western A Fistful of Dollars, served as the closing night film. Due to European Parliament elections taking place on 25 May 2014, the winner of the Palme dOr was announced on 24 May, the Official Selection of films for the 2014 festival, including the line-up for the Main Competition, was announced on 17 April 2014. French actor Lambert Wilson hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, the films announced to compete for the Palme dOr were named at the Cannes press conference on 17 April 2014. Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, was selected as the film in the Un Certain Regard section. Italian film A passo duomo by Giovanni Aloi was removed from the selection because Aloi broke the regulations for the selection, the Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following 16 entries were selected, out of more than 1,631 submissions from 320 different schools, half of the films selected have been directed by women. The line-up for the International Critics Week was announced on 21 April at the sections website, FLA, directed by Djinn Carrénard, and Hippocrate, directed by Thomas Lilti, were selected as the opening and closing films of the Semaine de la Critique section. Feature films Special Screenings Shorts selection The line-up for the Directors Fortnight was announced on 22 April, girlhood, directed by Céline Sciamma, and Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus, were selected as the opening and closing films of the Directors Fortnight section. Feature films Special screenings Shorts selection The line-up for the Cannes Classics section was announced on 4 April 2014, italian actress Sophia Loren was announced as the guest of honour. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan called the win a surprise for me and dedicated the win to the youth of Turkey as the country undergoes political turmoil. Prior to the start of Cannes, Winter Sleep was considered the favorite to win the Palme dOr, some found it to be too long and difficult to finish, while others called it a great revelation. The jury, however, loved the film, Jury president Jane Campion said If I had the guts to be as honest about his characters as this director is, Id be very proud of myself. Winter Sleep is the story of Mr. Aydin, an actor who now runs mountaintop hotel. Aydin sees himself as the regions kind ruler, intervening in the business of the people below the mountain. In reality, almost everyone, including his wife, dislikes Aydin and he has a pompous column in the local newspaper and is writing a book on history of the Turkish theatre

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Seoul
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The Seoul Capital Area houses up to half of the countrys population of 50.22 million people with 678,102 international residents. Situated on the Han River, Seouls history stretches back more than two years when it was founded in 18 BCE by Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. It continued as the capital of Korea under the Joseon Dynasty, the Seoul Capital Area contains five UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Changdeok Palace, Hwaseong Fortress, Jongmyo Shrine, Namhansanseong and the Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty. Seoul is surrounded by mountains, the tallest being Mt. Bukhan, in 2015, it was rated Asias most livable city with the second highest quality of life globally by Arcadis. In 2014, the citys GDP per capita of $39,786 was comparable to that of France and Finland. Ranked sixth in the Global Power City Index and Global Financial Centres Index, Seoul is the worlds most wired city and ranked first in technology readiness by PwCs Cities of Opportunity report. It is served by the KTX high-speed rail and the Seoul Subway, providing 4G LTE, WiFi, Seoul is connected via AREX to Incheon International Airport, rated the worlds best airport nine years in a row by Airports Council International. Lotte World Tower, a 556-metre supertall skyscraper with 123 floors, has built in Seoul and become the OECDs tallest in 2016. Its Lotte Cinema houses the worlds largest cinema screen, Seouls COEX Mall is the worlds largest underground shopping mall. Seoul hosted the 1986 Asian Games,1988 Summer Olympics,2002 FIFA World Cup, the Miss Universe 1980 pageant, a UNESCO City of Design, Seoul was named the 2010 World Design Capital. The city has known in the past by the names Wirye-seong, Hanju. During Japans annexation in Korea, Hanseong was renamed to Keijō by the Imperial authorities to prevent confusion with the hanja 漢, in reality, the ancient name of Seoul, Hanseong, originally had the meaning of big or vast. Its current name originated from the Korean word meaning city, which is believed to be derived from the word Seorabeol, which originally referred to Gyeongju. Unlike most place names in Korea, Seoul has no corresponding hanja, on January 18,2005, Seoul government officially changed its official Chinese language name to Shouer from the historic Hancheng, of which use is becoming less common. Settlement of the Han River area, where present-day Seoul is located, Seoul is first recorded as Wiryeseong, the capital of Baekje in the northeastern Seoul area. There are several city walls remaining in the area date from this time. Pungnaptoseong, a wall just outside Seoul, is widely believed to have been at the main Wiryeseong site. As the Three Kingdoms competed for this region, control passed from Baekje to Goguryeo in the 5th century

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South Korea
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South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The earliest Korean pottery dates to 8000 BC, with three kingdoms flourishing in the 1st century BC and its rich and vibrant culture left 19 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, the third largest in the world, along with 12 World Heritage Sites. Annexed into Imperial Japan in 1910, Korea was divided after its surrender in 1945, peace has since mostly continued with the two agreeing to work peacefully for reunification and the South solidifying peace as a regional power with the worlds 10th largest defence budget. South Koreas tiger economy soared at an average of 10% for over 30 years in a period of rapid transformation called the Miracle on the Han River. A long legacy of openness and focus on innovation made it successful, today, it is the worlds fifth largest exporter with the G20s largest budget surplus and highest credit rating of any country in East Asia. It has free trade agreements with 75% of the economy and is the only G20 nation trading freely with China, the US. Since 1988, its constitution guarantees a liberal democracy with high government transparency, high personal freedoms led to the rise of a globally influential pop culture such as K-pop and K-drama, a phenomenon called the Korean Wave, known for its distinctive fashionable and trendy style. Home of the UN Green Climate Fund and GGGI, South Korea is a leader in low carbon growth, committed to helping developing countries as a major DAC. It is the third least ignorant country in the Index of Ignorance, ranking eighth highest for peaceful tolerance. It is the worlds largest spender on R&D per GDP, leading the OECD in graduates in science, the name Korea derives from the name Goryeo. The name Goryeo itself was first used by the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo in the 5th century as a form of its name. The 10th-century kingdom of Goryeo succeeded Goguryeo, and thus inherited its name, the modern spelling of Korea first appeared in the late 17th century in the travel writings of the Dutch East India Companys Hendrick Hamel. After Goryeo was replaced by Joseon in 1392, Joseon became the name for the entire territory. The new official name has its origin in the ancient country of Gojoseon, in 1897, the Joseon dynasty changed the official name of the country from Joseon to Daehan Jeguk. The name Daehan, which means great Han literally, derives from Samhan, however, the name Joseon was still widely used by Koreans to refer to their country, though it was no longer the official name. Under Japanese rule, the two names Han and Joseon coexisted, there were several groups who fought for independence, the most notable being the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Following the surrender of Japan, in 1945, the Republic of Korea was adopted as the name for the new country. Since the government only controlled the part of the Korean Peninsula

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Hangul
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The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul in South Korea and as Chosŏngŭl/Chosŏn Muntcha in North Korea is the alphabet that has been used to write the Korean language since the 15th century. It was created during the Joseon Dynasty in 1443 by King Sejong the Great, in South Korea, Hangul is used primarily to write the Korean language as using Hanja in typical Korean writing had fallen out of common usage during the late 1990s. In its classical and modern forms, the alphabet has 19 consonant and 21 vowel letters, however, instead of being written sequentially like the letters of the Latin alphabet, Hangul letters are grouped into blocks, such as 한 han, each of which transcribes a syllable. That is, although the syllable 한 han may look like a single character, each syllabic block consists of two to six letters, including at least one consonant and one vowel. These blocks are arranged horizontally from left to right or vertically from top to bottom. Each Korean word consists of one or more syllables, hence one or more blocks, of the 11,172 possible Hangul syllables, the most frequent 256 have a cumulative frequency of 88. 2%, with the top 512, it reaches 99. 9%. The modern name Hangul was coined by Ju Sigyeong in 1912, han meant great in archaic Korean, and geul is the native Korean word for script. Taken together, then, the meaning is great script, as the word han had also become one way of indicating Korea as a whole the name could also potentially be interpreted as Korean script. Korean 한글 is pronounced, and in English as /ˈhɑːn. ɡʊl/ or /ˈhɑːŋɡʊl/, when used as an English word, it is often rendered without the diacritics, hangul, and it is often capitalized as Hangul, as it appears in many English dictionaries. Hankul in the Yale romanization, a system recommended for technical linguistic studies, North Koreans call it Chosŏngŭl, after Chosŏn, the North Korean name for Korea. Because of objections to the names Hangeul, Chosŏngŭl, and urigeul by Koreans in China, until the early 20th century, Hangul was denigrated as vulgar by the literate elite, who preferred the traditional hanja writing system. They gave it such names as these, Achimgeul, in the original Hanja, it is rendered as 故智者不終朝而會，愚者可浹旬而學。 Gugmun Eonmun Amgeul. Am is a prefix that signifies a noun is feminine Ahaetgeul or Ahaegeul Hangul was promulgated by Sejong the Great, the Hall of Worthies, a group of scholars who worked with Sejong to develop and refine the new alphabet, is often credited for the work. The project was completed in late December 1443 or January 1444, the publication date of the Hunmin Jeong-eum, October 9, became Hangul Day in South Korea. Its North Korean equivalent, Chosongul Day, is on January 15, various speculations about the creation process were put to rest by the discovery in 1940 of the 1446 Hunmin Jeong-eum Haerye. This document explains the design of the consonant letters according to articulatory phonetics, to assuage this problem, King Sejong created the unique alphabet known as Hangul to promote literacy among the common people. However, it entered popular culture as Sejong had intended, being used especially by women, the late 16th century, however, saw a revival of Hangul, with gasa literature and later sijo flourishing. In the 17th century, Hangul novels became a major genre, by this point spelling had become quite irregular

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Hanja
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Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. Borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation, hanja-mal or hanja-eo refers to words that can be written with hanja, and hanmun refers to Classical Chinese writing, although hanja is sometimes used loosely to encompass these other concepts. Because hanja never underwent major reform, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese, only a small number of hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in Japan and Mainland China have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding hanja characters. Today, a working knowledge of Chinese characters is still important for anyone who wishes to study older texts. Learning a certain number of hanja is very helpful for understanding the etymology of Sino-Korean words, hanja are not used to write native Korean words, which are always rendered in hangul, and even words of Chinese origin—hanja-eo —are written with the hangul alphabet most of the time. A major motivation for the introduction of Chinese characters into Korea was the spread of Buddhism, the major Chinese text that introduced hanja to Koreans, however, was not a religious text but the Chinese text, Cheonjamun. One way of adapting hanja to write Korean in such systems was to represent native Korean grammatical particles, for example, Gugyeol uses the characters 爲尼 to transcribe the Korean word hăni, in modern Korean, that means does, and so. However, in Chinese, the characters are read as the expression wéi ní. This is an example of Gugyeol words where the radical is read in Korean for its meaning. Hanja was the means of writing Korean until King Sejong the Great promoted the invention of hangul in the 15th century. However, even after the invention of hangul, most Korean scholars continued to write in hanmun and it was not until the 20th century that hangul truly replaced hanja. Officially, hanja has not been used in North Korea since June 1949, additionally, many words borrowed from Chinese have been replaced in the North with native Korean words. However, there are a number of Chinese-borrowed words in widespread usage in the North. The replacement has been less total in South Korea where, although usage has declined over time, some remains in common usage in some contexts. Each hanja is composed of one of 214 radicals plus in most cases one or more additional elements, the vast majority of hanja use the additional elements to indicate the sound of the character, but a few hanja are purely pictographic, and some were formed in other ways. This dual meaning-sound reading of a character is called eumhun, the word or words used to denote the meaning are often—though hardly always—words of native Korean origin, and are sometimes archaic words no longer commonly used. South Korean primary schools abandoned the teaching of hanja in 1971 and it is taught in separate courses in South Korean high schools, separately from the normal Korean-language curriculum

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
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The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the films in competition at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946, the ceremony was cancelled in 1948,1950, and 1968. No awards were given to actresses in 1947, on four occasions, the jury has awarded multiple women the prize from one film. The four films were A World Apart, Brink of Life, A Big Family, the jury also on occasion cites actresses with a special citation that is separate from the main award. From 1979 to 1981 the festival awarded a Best Supporting Actress prize. Isabelle Adjani is the actress to ever win the award for two films in one festival, which she did in 1981. The award can be for lead or supporting roles, barbara Hershey won the award consecutively in 1987 and 1988. ‡ - indicates the performance was nominated for an Academy Award 2 wins Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan

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2007 Cannes Film Festival
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The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wais My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcands The Age of Ignorance closed, the President of the Official Jury was British director Stephen Frears. Le Clézio, French writer Dominik Moll, German director Deborah Nadoolman, American costume designer Tous Les Cinemas du Monde began in 2005 to showcase films from a variety of different countries. From 19 May to 25 May 2007, films were screened from India, Lebanon, Poland, Kenya, Guinea, Angola, Slovenia, the first two days of this program were devoted entirely to the cinema of India and included films in a number of different languages. The Hindi film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, which screened on 19 May, was well received. In addition, a Maniratnam film, Guru, was also a critical success. Other films included the Hindi film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal starring John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, Dharm, the Malayalam film Saira, Missed Call, the Tamil film Veyil, another Tamil language Indian film, Mozhi was shown in the non-prize category at a later date. Labaki not only directed and co-wrote the film but plays the lead as well, the rest of the cast is composed mostly of unprofessional actors, all of whom deliver very convincing performances and add a lot of color and depth to the film. The film proved to be a sleeper at the festival and was distributed in well over 40 countries, becoming an international hit

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Asia Pacific Screen Awards
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Staged for the first time in 2007, APSA collaborates with UNESCO and FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Winners are determined by a jury and films are judged on cinematic excellence. APSA takes the works of filmmakers across more than 70 countries, nominees are automatically inducted into the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, a growing world-class body of Asia-Pacific filmmakers. Australian screen legend, Jack Thompson AM, is the President of the Academy, the eighth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards was held in Brisbane on 11 December 2014. The FIAPF Award, The International Federation of Film Producers Associations determines the winner of the award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region. The UNESCO Award, The United Nations Educational, Scientific, the Jury Grand Prize, The Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards can, at its discretion, present a further award

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Lee Chang-dong
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Lee Chang-dong is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for his films Peppermint Candy, Oasis, Secret Sunshine, and Poetry. Lee won the Special Directors Award at the 2002 Venice Film Festival and the Best Screenplay award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, he has also nominated for the Golden Lion. Lee served as South Koreas Minister of Culture and Tourism from 2003 to 2004, Lee was born in Daegu, the hub of Koreas main conservative party. He graduated in 1981 with a degree in Korean Literature from Kyungpook National University in Daegu, after a spell teaching Korean Language in high school, he established himself as a renowned novelist with his first novel Chonri in 1983. Later in his career, to the surprise of many, he turned to movie making, Lee did not study film making before starting out. He penned two screenplays, Park Kwang-sus To the Starry Island in 1993 and A Single Spark in 1995, in 2000, Lee made Peppermint Candy, a story following a single man in reverse chronology through 20 years of South Korean history. He served as the minister of Culture and Tourism in the South Korean Government from 2003 to 2004 and it was delivered to the French embassy in South Korea by the French Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres during an official visit. In 2007, Lees fourth film, Secret Sunshine, was completed, at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, the film was entered in the competition category and its leading actress, Jeon Do-yeon, won the Prix dinterprétation féminine du Festival de Cannes. It was released to theaters in South Korea in 2007, and was South Koreas submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. In 2009, Lee was appointed as a member of the international competition in 61st Cannes Film Festival along with Isabelle Huppert, Shu Qi. In 2010, Lees latest film, Poetry, was released, garnering positive critical reviews, notably, the films starring role was played by Yoon Jeong-hee, who was returning to the screen after an absence of 16 years. In 2007, Lees short story, The Dreaming Beast, was published in the journal AZALEA, Lee Chang Dong Retrospective Singapore 2011 On the Narratography of Lee Chang-dong, A Long Translators Note by Heinz Insu Fenkl

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Secret Sunshine
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Secret Sunshine is a 2007 South Korean drama film directed by acclaimed South Korean director, novelist, and former Minister of Culture Lee Chang-dong. The screenplay based on the short fiction The Story of a Bug by Lee Cheong-jun that focuses on a woman as she wrestles with the questions of grief, madness, and faith. The Korean title Miryang is named after the city served as the films setting and filming location. For her performance in the film, Jeon Do-yeon won the Prix dinterprétation féminine du Festival de Cannes at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the film also won the award for Best Film at the Asian Film Awards and at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The film sold 1,710,364 tickets nationwide in South Korea alone, Lee Shin-ae and her only child move to the small town of Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province. Her husband has died and she has decided to start life anew back in the hometown of her deceased husband. While entering Miryang, Shin-aes car breaks down along a rural highway and she is able to get the local mechanic in Miryang named Kim Jong-chan to come out to her car and start it once again. Although they come from different social backgrounds, the hits it off. Tragedy soon strikes Shin-ae once again when her son is abducted. As Shin-ae must deal with another devastating tragedy in her life, she attempts to find answers and a light that can shine upon her dark life

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Korean drama
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South Korea started to broadcast television series in the 1960s. Todays mini deurama format of 12–24 episodes started in the 1990s, transforming traditional historical series to this format, Korean dramas are usually shot within a very tight schedule, often a few hours before actual broadcast. Screenplays are flexible and may change anytime during production, depending on viewers feedback, production companies often face financial issues. Korean dramas are popular worldwide, partially due to the spread of the Korean Wave, some of the most famous dramas have been broadcast via traditional television channels, for example, Dae Jang Geum was sold to 91 countries. Series are likely to have one season, with 12–24 episodes. Historical series may be longer, with 50 to 200 episodes, the broadcast time for dramas is 22,00 to 23,00, with episodes on two consecutive nights, Mondays and Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and weekends. The 19,00 to 20,00 evening time slot is usually for daily dramas that run from Monday through Friday, Dramas in these slots are in the telenovella format, rarely running over 200 episodes. Unlike the American soap operas, these dramas are not also scheduled during the day-time. Instead, the schedule often includes reruns of the flagship dramas. The night-time dailies can achieve high ratings. For example, the evening series Temptation of Wife peaked at 40. 6%, Sageuk refers to any Korean television or film drama that is either based on historical figures, incorporates historical events, or uses a historical backdrop. While technically the word literally translates to historical drama, the term is typically reserved for dramas taking place during Korean history. Popular subjects of sageuks have traditionally included famous battles, royalty, famous military leaders, since the mid-2000s sageuks have achieved major success outside of Korea. Sageuks including Dae Jang Geum, Yi San, and Jumong enjoyed strong ratings and high ratings in countries such Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Fiji. Jumong, which aired on IRIB in 2008 had 85% viewership, series set in contemporary times usually run for one season, for 12−24 episodes of 60 minutes. They are often centered on a story, with family ties. Characters are mostly idealised, with Korean male protagonists described as handsome, intelligent, emotional and this has also been a contributing factor to the popularity of Korean dramas among women, as the image of Korean men became different from that of other Asian men. Radio broadcasting, including the broadcasting of radio dramas in Korea, began in 1927 under Japanese rule, with most programming in Japanese, after the Korean War, radio dramas such as Cheongsilhongsil reflected the countrys mood

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Han Suk-kyu
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Han Suk-kyu is a South Korean actor. One of the actors of Korean cinema, Hans notable works include Green Fish. 3, Christmas in August, Shiri, and The Presidents Last Bang, Han Suk-kyu is known as a family man, avid golfer, fisherman and voracious reader. He collects animation by Studio Ghibli and hopes to join Ghibli voice cast one day as a Korean-speaking character, while a student at the Theater and Film department of Dongguk University, he sang in an amateur folk rock band. He took a brief, year-long contract as voice actor at KBS, before moving on to TV, choon-seop, an old friend from hometown played by Choi Min-sik, struggles hopelessly to stop Hong-shik from his self-ruin. The partnership of Han and Choi as uneasy allies or foes, both the series and Hong-shik character have since become beloved icons, as part of the Korean televisions golden era before the advent of Korean Wave. The cast also features veterans who are now luminaries in Korean cinema, Na Moon-hee of The Quiet Family, Kim Hae-sook of Park Chan-wooks Thirst, before the end of the 20th century, Han headlined films that were critically acclaimed and commercially successful. Hans experience in the stages of Korean cinema renaissance in the 1990s. Thus the founding of Makdong Script Festival, with film magazine Cine 21. Winners may claim two cash prizes funded by Han, with the potential to launch directing careers based from their own scripts, the annual contest is now extant over 10 years, with two titles produced so far, the comedy 2424 and Private Eye starring Hwang Jung-min. Han went into a hiatus in 1999, declining several lucrative opportunities with name directors as he suffered disc problem. Combined with other factors have attempted to explain the lukewarm reception to his comeback, double Agent, which netted one million admissions, was seen as a failure for a star labeled by the media as box office guarantee. This was followed by a backlash from netizens and the press. Nonetheless, these controversial works screened at Cannes, and were featured in a tribute to the actor at the Austrian FilmAsia festival. In spite of this return to feature films, Han remains well regarded by such major directors as Park Chan-wook, Lee Joon-ik, Kang Woo-suk. Compared to his popularity in the 90s, his work may seem an acquired taste for general audiences. He also remains well respected among major peers for his style, Kim Hye-soo, Song Kang-ho, Oh Dal-su, Sol Kyung-gu. Overall, his post-90s career is marked by less high-profile, event projects than personal interests, as in the late 90s, Han continues to favor novice directors over safer projects under seasoned directors, in hopes of bringing new talents into the industry

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The Contact (1997 South Korean film)
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The Contact is a 1997 South Korean romance film directed by Chang Yoon-hyun. Starring Han Suk-kyu and Jeon Do-yeon, it was the second biggest-grossing Korean film of 1997 with 674,933 admissions, one day, radio DJ Dong-hyeon receives an anonymous package containing a Velvet Underground record. Dong-hyeon hopes that the record was sent by his former lover and he decides to play the song Pale Blue Eyes off of that record. At the same time, a home shopping telemarketer, Soo-hyeon listens to the program while driving her car. The next day, Soo-hyeon makes a request through the internet for Dong-hyeon to play the song again, Dong-hyeon then contacts Soo-hyeon, hoping she is his former girlfriend or someone he knows. org

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The Harmonium in My Memory
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The Harmonium in My Memory is a 1999 South Korean film based on the best-selling Korean semi-autobiographical novel Female Student by Ha Keum-chan. Kang Soo-ha, a 21-year-old teacher from Seoul, takes his first job at a school in Gangwon Province. One of his students, 17-year-old Yun Hong-yeon, develops a crush on him. Meanwhile, Soo-ha has fallen for Yang Eun-hee, a teacher at their school. Yang Eun-hee Jeon Moo-song Choi Joo-bong Lee In-cheol Song Ok-sook Kim Seon-hwa Lee Dae-yeon The Harmonium in My Memory was released in South Korea on March 27,1999. Jeon Do-yeon won Best Actress at the 1999 Blue Dragon Film Awards,1999 Directors Cut Awards, the film won Best Picture at the 2000 Verona Love Screens Film Festival. The film was adapted into a musical Organ in My Memory in 2008, the musical featured visually catching pink-toned stage sets to exude a romantic atmosphere, along with modern music and choreography played by 21 actors to curry favor with the modern audience. The initial run at Hoam Arts Hall also drew attention from the public for the return of musical theater-turned-TV/film actor Oh Man-seok to the stage. At the 2008 Korea Musical Awards, it swept Best Original Korean Musical, Best Direction, Best Composition, Best Scenario, Best Stage Design, the musical had a second run on July 16 to August 28,2011 at Hoam Arts Hall in Sunhwa-dong, central Seoul. Oh Man-seok, the star of the first run, returned this time as the director, Oh cast singer Tim and musical actor Kim Seung-dae to take over the lead role. The Harmonium in My Memory at the Internet Movie Database The Harmonium in My Memory at the Korean Movie Database The Harmonium in My Memory at HanCinema

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Happy End (1999 film)
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Happy End is a South Korean film released in 1999. Written and directed by Jung Ji-woo, its about a woman whos having an affair while her husband is unemployed, Happy End is about Choi Bora, a successful career woman who becomes involved with her ex-lover, Kim Il-beom. Boras home life is a snore, shes mother to an infant child and her husband, Seo Min-ki has lost his job and its unclear if Bora is with Il-beom just for the sex or for the passion, both of which Min-ki seems incapable of giving. But it seems the jobless Min-ki hasnt been just wandering around parks and reading novels as first thought, he knows something is going on. Min-ki has been emasculated by his inability to find a job and director Jung hammers this point home with a montage showing Min-ki grocery shopping, cooking. These are all very feminine jobs, particularly in very patriarchal South Korea, most interesting is that Min-ki seems content to live with the cheating Bora, very much aware of his own shortcomings, which leaves him willing to be wronged. Bora is unable to going back to Il-beom even though she seems physically and emotionally damaged by their continued affair. Il-beom has realized that he is hooked on her, and is aware of his jealously-driven actions toward her and her family. Without each other, they have no passion in their lives, although Happy End ends rather unhappily, the film is not altogether downbeat. Director Jung Ji-woo has taken the role of observer, using handheld cameras to capture the events in the lives of his 3 main subjects. The film is explicit, and there is one scene of brutal violence. Mi-yong Kim Byeong-chun Park Ji-il Park Nam-hee Lee Geum-ju Yoo Yeon-soo, lethal Work, Domestic Space and Gender Troubles in Happy End and The Housemaid. Durham and London, Duke University Press, list of Korean language films Happy End at the Korean Movie Database Happy End at the Internet Movie Database Happy End at HanCinema

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I Wish I Had a Wife
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I Wish I Had a Wife is a 2001 South Korean film about a lonely banker who meets a schoolteacher. Bong-soo has been working as manager of a bank in an apartment complex for three years. During his three years there,23 years if you count his school days, Bong-soo has never been late, however, he purposely decides to skip work one day. Inside a subway train that has stopped on his way to work. At that moment, he realized that he not have a single person to call. He does not know that inside the center across the street from the bank where he works. Bong-soo and Won-ju run into each other every day, at the Ramen restaurant, at the bank, all kinds of trivial incidents occur but Bong-soo still does not truly recognize Won-jus presence. One day, while looking over the banks CCTV tapes, Bong-soo discovers someone pitifully calling out his name to the small,2001 Baeksang Arts Awards Best Actress - Jeon Do-yeon Best New Director - Park Heung-sik I Wish I Had a Wife at the Internet Movie Database

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Ryoo Seung-wan
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Ryoo Seung-wan is a South Korean film director. Ryoo Seung-wan was born in 1973 in Onyang, a town in South Chungcheong Province. Watching Jackie Chans Drunken Master turned him into a lifelong fan, dreaming of becoming a film director someday, he took taekwondo lessons and saved lunch money for three years in middle school to buy an 8mm camera, with which he shot short films. Ryoo became his familys sole breadwinner after he lost his parents while in middle school and he later dropped out of high school in 1992 and worked for six months to raise enough money to cover a years worth of basic living expenses for his family. Ryoo, a fan of an unknown director named Park Chan-wooks 1992 debut The Moon Is. The Suns Dream and his work as a critic, went to meet Park and those formative years also saw Ryoos debut as a real director, with the 1996 short Transmutated Head. The 19-minute shorts DP was Jang Joon-hwan, and it featured many familiar faces in the Korean indie scene, including character actor Heo Jong-soo and Lee Mu-young. With a few years of experience as assistant director on Whispering Corridors and Parks 1997 film Trio, Ryoos debut was initially planned as a full-fledged feature film, but various issues forced him to instead shoot separate short films sharing common characters and themes. The four shorts, shot on a budget of around ₩65 million, became Ryoos first feature film. In an era when blockbusters like Shiri and Joint Security Area were the rage in Korean cinema, starring in the film himself along with some industry friends and even his little brother Ryoo Seung-bum, Ryoo became an instant cult hit, praised left and right for his masterful debut. With his directorial debut, Ryoo became known as the Action Kid, with the country experiencing tremendous growth in high-speed Internet penetration, a few companies tried to bank on this momentum by producing online short films. In 2000 the now defunct Cine4M website released a film by Ryoo alongside Jang Jins A Terrible Day. Coupling over-the-top voice dubbing with deliberately mistimed action, Dachimawa Lee was a success online, making lead actor Im Won-hee a minor star. Big expectations often lead to equally big disappointments, which is what industry insiders and critics felt about Ryoos first real feature film, the film mixed big stars like Jeon Do-yeon with talented actors from the theater world like Jung Jae-young. Joining Director Ryoo once again was his younger brother Seung-bum, who was starting to make a name for himself in the independent of his brother. With No Blood No Tears a flop at the box office, it was a period for Ryoo. After that disappointment, Ryoo collaborated again with Jung Doo-hong and brother Seung-bum, the four embarked on Arahan, part modern-day wuxia and part local comedy. Despite its commercial success, critics still werent pleased, continuing to lament the loss of Chungmuros enfant prodige and it took another two years for Ryoo to come back, but 2005s Crying Fist was in many ways proof he had matured beyond easy labels and traditional genre boundaries

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No Blood No Tears
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No Blood No Tears is a 2002 South Korean pulp noir film from director Ryoo Seung-wan. The ill-treated mistress of a gang boss becomes friendly with a woman who drives a taxi. Eventually the two hatch a plan to steal a bagful of money, taking some revenge in the process, baek-gol Baek Chan-ki Lee Young-hoo Kim Su-hyeon

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Untold Scandal
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Untold Scandal is a 2003 South Korean romantic drama film directed by E J-yong, and starring Bae Yong-joon, Jeon Do-yeon, and Lee Mi-sook. Loosely based on the 18th century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, in Japan the film was given an R-18 rating by the Japanese Film Ethics Commission. The film was a commercial success, and became the fourth highest grossing domestic film of 2003 with 3,522,747 tickets sold nationwide. A beautiful but cynical noblewoman makes a bet with her cousin that he can have sex with her if he is able to seduce a young woman of great virtue. He accepts the challenge with enthusiasm though not suspecting the nasty trap he is walking into, furthermore, Lady Jeong lived in Ganghwa Island, and in the film, she is living in Seoul as there was a plague at her hometown at that time. Jo-won and Madam Jo were in the cousins, and it is revealed that Jo-wons first love was Madam Jo, whereas in the novel, they were rivals, yet using the same tools for their revenge. Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil s former lover is arranged to be Céciles future husband in the novel, in So-oks case, she is being made into a concubine of Madam Jos husband for the continuity of the family lineage with the elders consent. Lee So-ok was ushered in to Madam Jos care to be the concubine of her husband, chevalier Raphael Danceny was originally Céciles music tutor in the novel, but in the film, Kwon In-ho is the youngest son of Madam Jos next-door neighbor and also Lady Jeongs cousin

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Les Liaisons dangereuses
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Les Liaisons dangereuses is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23,1782. It has been claimed to depict the decadence of the French aristocracy shortly before the French Revolution, however, it has also been described as an amoral story. As an epistolary novel, the book is composed entirely of letters written by the characters to each other. In particular, the letters between Valmont and the Marquise drive the plot, with those of their victims and other characters serving as contrasting figures to give the story its depth. It is often claimed to be the source of the saying Revenge is a dish best served cold, however, the expression does not actually occur in the original novel in any form. The Vicomte de Valmont is determined to seduce the virtuous, married, and therefore inaccessible Madame de Tourvel, who is staying with Valmonts aunt while her husband is away on a court case. Cécile falls in love with the Chevalier Danceny, and Merteuil and Valmont pretend to help the lovers in order to gain their trust. Merteuil suggests that the Vicomte seduce Cécile in order to enact her revenge on Céciles future husband, Valmont refuses, finding the challenge too easy, and preferring to devote himself to seducing Madame de Tourvel. Merteuil promises Valmont that if he seduces Madame de Tourvel and provides her with written proof and he expects rapid success, but does not find it as easy as his many other conquests. During the course of his pursuit, he discovers that Céciles mother has written to Madame de Tourvel about his bad reputation and he avenges himself in seducing Cécile as Merteuil had suggested. In the meantime, Merteuil takes Danceny as a lover, by the time Valmont has succeeded in seducing Madame de Tourvel, he seems to have fallen in love with her. Jealous, Merteuil tricks him into deserting Madame de Tourvel —, in retaliation Valmont reveals that he prompted Danceny to reunite with Cécile, leaving Merteuil abandoned yet again. Merteuil declares war on Valmont and reveals to Danceny that Valmont has seduced Cécile, Danceny and Valmont duel, and Valmont is fatally wounded. Before he dies, he gives Danceny the letters proving Merteuils own involvement and these letters are sufficient to ruin her reputation so she flees to the countryside, where she contracts smallpox. Her face is permanently scarred and she is rendered blind in one eye, so she loses her greatest asset. But the innocent also suffer from the schemes, desperate with guilt and grief, Madame de Tourvel succumbs to a fever and dies. Les Liaisons dangereuses is celebrated for its exploration of seduction, revenge and human malice, the book was viewed as scandalous at the time of its initial publication, though the real intentions of the author remain unknown. It has been suggested that Lacloss intention was the same as that of his fictional author in the novel, to write a morality tale about the corrupt, however, this theory has been questioned on several grounds

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Joseon
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The Kingdom of Joseon was a Korean kingdom founded by Yi Seonggye that lasted for approximately five centuries, from July 1392 to October 1897. It was officially renamed the Korean Empire in October 1897 and it was founded following the aftermath of the overthrow of Goryeo in what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul, the kingdoms northernmost borders were expanded to the natural boundaries at the Yalu and Tumen Rivers through the subjugation of the Jurchens. Joseon was the last dynasty of Korea and its longest-ruling Confucian dynasty, during its reign, Joseon encouraged the entrenchment of Chinese Confucian ideals and doctrines in Korean society. Neo-Confucianism was installed as the new state ideology. Buddhism was accordingly discouraged and occasionally faced persecutions by the dynasty, Joseon consolidated its effective rule over the territory of current Korea and saw the height of classical Korean culture, trade, science, literature, and technology. After the end of invasions from Manchuria, Joseon experienced a nearly 200-year period of peace, by the late 14th century, the nearly 500-year-old Goryeo established in 918 was tottering, its foundations collapsing from years of war and de facto occupation from the disintegrating Mongol Empire. Following the emergence of the Ming dynasty, the court in Goryeo split into two conflicting factions, the group led by General Yi and the camp led by General Choe. Goryeo claimed to be the successor of the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo, as such, Yi was chosen to lead the attack, however, he revolted and swept back to Gaegyeong and initiated a coup détat, overthrowing King U in favor of his son, Chang of Goryeo. He later killed King U and his son after a failed restoration, in 1392, Yi eliminated Jeong Mong-ju, highly respected leader of a group loyal to Goryeo dynasty, and dethroned King Gongyang, exiling him to Wonju, and before he ascended the throne. The Goryeo Dynasty had come to an end after almost 500 years of rule. After much deliberation, the Taejo Emperor declared the name of the new dynasty to be Joseon, after the ancient Korean state of Gojoseon and he also moved the capital to Hanyang from Kaesong. When the new dynasty was promulgated and officially brought into existence, with Taejos support, Jeong Dojeon kept limiting the royal familys power by prohibiting political involvement of princes and attempting to abolish their private armies. Both sides were aware of each others great animosity and were getting ready to strike first. This incident became known as the First Strife of Princes, one of King Jeongjongs first acts as monarch was to revert the capital to Kaesong, where he is believed to have been considerably more comfortable, away from the toxic power strife. Yet Yi Bangwon retained real power and was soon in conflict with his older brother. Yi Banggan, who yearned for power. In 1400, the tensions between Yi Bangwons faction and Yi Banggans camp escalated into a conflict that came to be known as the Second Strife of Princes

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My Mother, the Mermaid
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My Mother, the Mermaid is a 2004 South Korean film about a young woman who quarrels with her mother but is somehow transported back in time and sees her parents courtship. In her youth, her mother was a haenyeo, a traditional freediver, na-young is an office worker who lives with her seemingly emotionally non-existent father Jin-kook, and loud cynical mother Yeon-soon. As time passes, she is becoming more and more like her mother Yeon-soon, one day, her father suddenly disappears and she skips her international airplane flight to find him. By entering her fathers hometown, she is transported back in time to when her parents relationship was just beginning. She meets her mother, now a young woman working hard as a haenyo to send her younger brother to school to get the education she never received. Her father is a man who works as a postmaster who delivers mail all over the town where her mother lived. He befriends Yeon-soon and teaches her how to read and write, na-young is taken in by the young Yeon-soon and, as they are now roughly the same age, the two become very close. Na-young is able to experience the trials, heartbreaks, and celebrations of Yeon-soon before she herself is suddenly transported back into the present time

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You Are My Sunshine (2005 film)
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You Are My Sunshine is a 2005 South Korean film written and directed by Park Jin-pyo, and starring Jeon Do-yeon. It was released in Korea on 23 September 2005, the official English title is named after the Jimmie Davis song You Are My Sunshine, which is used on the soundtrack. Seok-joong, a farmer in his mid thirties, is desperate to find a wife, after backing out of a scheme to set him up with a Filipino bride, he falls head over heels in love with local dabang delivery girl Eun-ha, and starts showering her with gifts. Although Eun-ha is initially unimpressed, she is won over by his kindhearted nature. The couples marital bliss is short lived, however, as Eun-ha tests positive for HIV/AIDS, and is tracked down by her abusive ex-husband. It also became the best-selling Korean melodrama film of all time, before its record was surpassed by Maundy Thursday a year later

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Lovers in Prague
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Lovers in Prague is a 2005 South Korean television drama series starring Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Joo-hyuk, Kim Min-joon and Yoon Se-ah. It aired on SBS from September 24 to November 20,2005 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21,45 for 18 episodes and it is the second of three TV series in the Lovers trilogy by writer Kim Eun-sook and director Shin Woo-chul. This was preceded by Lovers in Paris, and the third, the president’s daughter, Yoon Jae-hee is a Korean diplomat in Prague, Czech Republic. She has only recently recovered from a break up five years earlier with Ji Young-woo. Choi Sang-hyun is a detective who goes to Prague searching for his ex-girlfriend Hye-joo, Hye-joo broke up with Sang-hyun over the phone from Prague and Sang-hyun cannot accept it. Sang-hyun meets Jae-hee in Prague and misunderstandings abound, eventually the two help each other and become friends. When they return to Korea love blossoms, but their respective exes, Jeon Do-yeon as Yoon Jae-hee The daughter of the President and an incumbent diplomat. She is upright and enthusiastic about her profession, after she passed the Civil Service Examination for Foreign Affairs, she was sent to Paris for her first assignment of meets Young-woo and fell in love with him. Kim Joo-hyuk as Choi Sang-hyun A detective and he decided to become one as no policeman could help him solve a hit-and-run case, which killed his parents. Although hot-tempered and rush, he is kind-hearted and he meets Hye-joo when he was sent to solve a robbery case and fell in love with her, and helped fund her studies in Prague. After Jae-hee breaks up with him, he heads to Prague to look for her and there, Kim Min-joon as Ji Young-woo A public prosecutor and the son of the chairman of a leading conglomerate, who grew up without family love. Not wanting to be under his fathers shadow, he graduated law school. After he was exposed to the spotlight, he went backpacking in Prague to avoid everything and he met Jae-hee there and fell in love with her. However, he was separated from her after his fathers interjection, when meets her again, she already fell in love with Sang-hyun. Yoon Se-ah as Kang Hye-joo An orphan, who seems fragile but is strong and she becomes a kindergarten children after graduating from community college. One day, she meets Sang-hyun and fell in love with him and she heads to Prague to further her studies with the help of Sang-hyun, but unfortunately becomes pregnant. Her intent to climb to the top with wrong choices caused her to break up with Sang-hyun, after realizing her mistakes, she wants to reconcile with him. Young Won Duk-hyun as a student Shim Eun-kyung as a student Hahm Eun-jung as a student Ratings for the drama averaged 26–27%, at the 2005 SBS Drama Awards, Jeon Do-yeon was awarded the Daesang, and Kim Joo-hyuk won Top Excellence Award

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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities

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My Dear Enemy
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My Dear Enemy is a road movie starring Jeon Do-yeon and Ha Jung-woo as two ex-lovers who reacquaint themselves while driving around Seoul. The film takes place over one rather uneventful day, and subtle emotions and this is the fourth film by South Korean director Lee Yoon-ki. Lee Yoon-kis deadpan comedy trails a pair of former lovers – hes a charismatic romantic, Hee-soo isnt the type of person to say whats on her mind, but you can tell that something is wrong. When, at a stadium, she tracks down her ex-boyfriend Byung-woon. I want my money, she says, skipping even the barest of greetings, Byung-woon, for his part, looks like a man trapped. Despite his nervous smiles and warm assurances, you can guess from the outset that he doesnt have the ₩3.5 million that he borrowed from her a year earlier. Dont worry, he tells her, for sure I can get it for you by the end of the day. As both day and debt are whittled down, the fall back into old patterns, rehash unsettled gripes. My Dear Enemy is an exercise in subtle comedy, anchored by the chemistry of the pitch-perfect lead performers. Jeon Do-yeon, as the sensible, even-tempered Hee-soo counterbalances the hysterical mother of a child she played in Secret Sunshine. Ha Jung-woo, too, is winning as the compulsively charming, about working opposite the reputed actress, Ha said Jeon quieted his nervousness with her easy manner. The two had appeared together three years before in the 2005 hit drama series Lovers in Prague, where Ha played a supporting role as the heroines bodyguard. I cant believe that I have risen to play opposite Jeon in such a time frame. While playing her bodyguard in the drama, there were scenes where I was chauffeuring for her. I remember one scene where she was crying, and I was so moved I almost shed tears. Jeon is an actress who inspires those around her even before the audience. Jeon said that she was the one who was grateful in the partnership, I didnt know wed be cast together because of our age difference, but Jung-woo was able to come far because he was already a good actor back then. Jung-woo is a versatile actor and really supported me

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The Housemaid (2010 film)
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The Housemaid is a 2010 South Korean melodramatic thriller film directed by Im Sang-soo. The story focuses on Eun-yi, played by Jeon Do-yeon, who involved in a destructive love triangle while working as a housemaid for an upper-class family. Other cast members include Lee Jung-jae, Seo Woo and Youn Yuh-jung, the film is a remake of Kim Ki-youngs 1960 film The Housemaid. It competed for the Palme dOr at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, the film opens with a bustling city street, where a young woman commits suicide by jumping from a building ledge to her death. The next morning, a woman by the name of Byeong-sik visits her small apartment. Eun-yi is hired as an au pair for Hae-ra and her rich husband Hoon, Eun-yis primary task is watching the couples young daughter, Nami. Eun-yi is eager to connect to Nami, who gradually warms to her, Hoon begins to secretly flirt with Eun-yi, enticing her with glasses of wine and his piano playing, and they eventually begin a sexual relationship. Despite the affair, Eun-yi is still warm and friendly to Hoons oblivious wife, Hae-ra, she even expresses enthusiasm, Byeong-sik, aka Miss Cho witnesses Eun-yi and Hoon having sex. She tries to subtly pry details from Eun-yi, but Eun-yi brushes her off casually, later, Miss Cho reveals her suspicion to Hae-ras mother that Eun-yi is pregnant. Hae-ras mother then visits the family and stages an accident, resulting in Eun-yi falling from a ladder positioned at the top of a set of stairs, dangling from a chandelier, Eun-yi begs Hae-ras mother to pull her over the railing. Hae-ras mother does not oblige, and Eun-yi falls, suffering only a concussion, Eun-yi spends the night in the hospital. During her stay, she learns that she is pregnant and contemplates abortion, meanwhile, the affair is revealed to Hae-ra. Hae-ras mother, Mi-hee, instructs Hae-ra to ignore the affair, she insists that all wealthy husbands will eventually cheat, later that night, Hae-ra stands over Eun-yis bed with a golf club but is unable to strike the sleeping woman. The next day, Hae-ra and her mother confront Eun-yi, offering her $100,000 to have an abortion and leave. Hae-ra knows that Eun-yi would not abort her child for all the money in the world, Hae-ra goes to the hospital and delivers her twin sons. Hoon visits the hospital, where Hae-ra makes her ill will toward him known, furious, he returns home alone and finds Eun-yi in his bathtub. She reveals that she is pregnant and plans on keeping the baby, Eun-yi succumbs to the effects of the poison, and Mi-hee arranges an abortion without Eun-yis consent. After the abortion, Miss Cho reveals that she told Mi-hee about Eun-yis pregnancy, Eun-yi is angry, but forgives Miss Cho and vows to get revenge on the family

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Countdown (2011 film)
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Countdown is a 2011 caper film that takes the audience on an entertaining journey through the underbelly of South Korea. Starring two of the top actors Jeon Do-yeon and Jung Jae-young, this highly assured debut feature by Huh Jong-ho premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Tae Gun-ho is the best debt collection agent in his firm, admired by his colleagues, he’s known for gathering his debts by any means necessary and keeps a cattle prod handy while on the job. Following a series of unexpected fainting spells, Tae is told by a doctor that he has liver cancer, and would need a transplant to have any chance of surviving beyond three months. So, Tae Gun-ho puts his skills to work, setting out to collect a different sort of debt by tracking down the recipients of organs donated by his late son. First among his sources for a liver is Cha Ha-yeon, a beguiling fraudster with a long list of enemies, locating Cha turns out to be easy, since she’s about to be released from prison. The deal she proposes, however, which includes getting even with the crime boss who set her up. He struggles desperately to keep Cha, and her liver, safe until the transplant — meanwhile Cha has other plans

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Way Back Home (2013 film)
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Way Back Home is a 2013 South Korean film starring Jeon Do-yeon and Go Soo, and directed by Bang Eun-jin. It is based on the story of an ordinary Korean housewife who was imprisoned in Martinique for two years after being wrongfully accused of drug smuggling at a Paris airport. This is the first time a Korean film was shot in the Caribbean, as well as the first to feature actual guards, filming took place over three weeks at a womens prison in Martinique. Since Jong-bae acted as his friends guarantor, the debt now falls onto them, with Jong-bae gradually growing despondent following their financial turmoil, Jeong-yeon makes the hard decision to do a job for a seedy acquaintance. She agrees to deliver diamonds from Paris to Seoul, which she thought would be legal, Jeong-yeon arrives in France, but as soon as she sets foot in Orly Airport she is arrested and police discover more than 30 kilograms of cocaine in her bag. Back in Korea, her husband does his best to get through to the diplomats, on 30 October 2004, Jang Mi-jeong was arrested at Orly Airport in France for smuggling a suitcase filled with 17 kilograms of cocaine. Jang said she had no idea what it contained, she had given a bag by her husbands friend, whom she had known for more than 10 years. Jang had agreed to carry the suitcase from Guyana to the Netherlands via France in return for ₩4 million, after getting caught at Orly, Jang was jailed near Paris for three months awaiting trial. Then, after being found guilty, she was sent to a prison in French-administered Martinique in the Caribbean and she finally returned to Korea two years later on 18 November 2006. Her friend was arrested as well and sentenced to serve 10 years in jail. Jangs story was featured on In Depth 60 Minutes, a KBS investigative-documentary show. Foreign Ministry officials have insisted that the story in the movie is not the whole truth, Way Back Home was released in theaters on 11 December 2013. The film recorded 610,000 admissions on its opening weekend and it ended up selling a total of 1,854,702 tickets, with a gross of ₩13,048,981,745. Official website Way Back Home at HanCinema Way Back Home at the Korean Movie Database Way Back Home at the Internet Movie Database

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Martinique
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Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. One of the Windward Islands, it is north of Saint Lucia, southeast of Puerto Rico, northwest of Barbados. As with the overseas departments, Martinique is one of the eighteen regions of France. As part of France, Martinique is part of the European Union, the official language is French, and virtually the entire population also speak Antillean Creole. Martinique owes its name to Christopher Columbus, who sighted the island in 1493, the island was then called Jouanacaëra-Matinino, which came from a mythical island described by the Tainos of Hispaniola. According to historian Sydney Daney, the island was called Jouanacaëra by the Caribs, when Columbus returned to the island in 1502, he rechristened the island as Martinica. The name then evolved into Madinina, Madiana, and Matinite, finally, through the influence of the neighboring island of Dominica, it came to be known as Martinique. The island was occupied first by Arawaks, then by Caribs, the Carib people had migrated from the mainland to the islands about 1201 CE, according to carbon dating of artifacts. They were largely displaced, exterminated and assimilated by the Taino, Martinique was charted by Columbus in 1493, but Spain had little interest in the territory. On 15 September 1635, Pierre Belain dEsnambuc, French governor of the island of St. Kitts, dEsnambuc claimed Martinique for the French King Louis XIII and the French Compagnie des Îles de lAmérique, and established the first European settlement at Fort Saint-Pierre. DEsnambuc died in 1636, leaving the company and Martinique in the hands of his nephew, in 1637, his nephew Jacques Dyel du Parquet became governor of the island. In 1636, the indigenous Caribs rose against the settlers to drive them off the island in the first of many skirmishes. The French successfully repelled the natives and forced them to retreat to the part of the island. When the Carib revolted against French rule in 1658, the Governor Charles Houël du Petit Pré retaliated with war against them, many were killed, those who survived were taken captive and expelled from the island. Some Carib had fled to Dominica or St. Vincent, where the French agreed to them at peace. They were quite industrious and became quite prosperous, from September 1686 to early 1688, the French crown used Martinique as a threat and a dumping ground for mainland Huguenots who refused to reconvert to Catholicism. Over 1,000 Huguenots were transported to Martinique during this period, usually under miserable and those that survived the trip were distributed to the island planters as Engagés under the system of serf peonage that prevailed in the French Antilles at the time. Many of them were encouraged by their Catholic brethren who looked forward to the departure of the heretics, by 1688, nearly all of Martiniques French Protestant population had escaped to the British American colonies or Protestant countries back home

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Illegal drug trade
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The illegal drug trade is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of types of drugs through the use of drug prohibition laws. A UN report has stated that the drug trade generated an estimated US$321.6 billion in 2003. With a world GDP of US$36 trillion in the same year, consumption of illegal drugs is widespread globally. Chinese edicts against opium smoking were made in 1729,1796 and 1800, addictive drugs were prohibited in the west in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the early 19th century, a drug trade in China emerged and as a result. The Chinese government responded by enforcing a ban on the import of opium that led to the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and Qing dynasty China, the United Kingdom won and forced China to allow British merchants to trade opium. Trading in opium was lucrative, and smoking opium had become common in the 19th century, the Second Opium War broke out in 1856, with the British joined this time by the French. In 1868, as a result of the use of opium. Between 1920 and 1933, by the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the beginning of the 21st century saw a drug use increase in North America and Europe, with a particularly increased demand for marijuana and cocaine. As a result, international organized crime such as the Sinaloa Cartel. Another illicit drug with increased demand in Europe is hashish, Drug trafficking is widely regarded by lawmakers as a serious offense around the world. Penalties often depend on the type of drug, the quantity trafficked, if the drugs are sold to underage people, then the penalties for trafficking may be harsher than in other circumstances. Drug smuggling carries severe penalties in many countries, sentencing may include lengthy periods of incarceration, flogging and even the death penalty. In December 2005, Van Tuong Nguyen, a 25-year-old Australian drug smuggler, was hanged in Singapore after being convicted in March 2004, in 2010, two people were sentenced to death in Malaysia for trafficking 1 kilogram of cannabis into the country. The countries of production and transit are some of the most affected by the drug trade. For example, Ecuador has absorbed up to 300,000 refugees from Colombia who are running from guerrillas, paramilitaries, while some applied for asylum, others are still illegal immigrants. The drugs that pass from Colombia through Ecuador to other parts of South America create economic, Honduras, through which an estimated 79% of cocaine passes on its way to the United States, has the highest murder rate in the world

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Orly Airport
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Paris Orly Airport is an international airport located partially in Orly and partially in Villeneuve-le-Roi,7 NM south of Paris, France. Prior to the construction of Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly was the airport of Paris. Orly Airport covers 15.3 square kilometres of land, originally known as Villeneuve-Orly Airport, the facility was opened in the southern suburbs of Paris in 1932 as a secondary airport to Le Bourget. Before this two huge airship hangars had been built there by the engineer Eugène Freyssinet from 1923 on, the 50th Fighter Group flew P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber aircraft from the airport until September, then liaison squadrons used the airfield until October 1945. The USAAF diagram from March 1947 shows the 6140-foot 27/207 runway with 5170-foot 81/261 runway crossing it at its north end. The November 1953 Aeradio diagram shows four runways, all 197 feet wide, 03L7874 ft, 03R6069 ft, 08L5118 ft. The American United States Army Air Forces 1408th Army Air Force Base Unit was the operator at Orly Field until March 1947 when control was returned to the French Government. The Americans left in 1967 as a result of Frances withdrawal from NATOs integrated military command, in May 1958 Pan Am DC-7Cs flew to Los Angeles in 21 hr 56 min, TWA, Air France and Pan Am flew nonstop to New York in 14 hrs 10-15 min. Air France flew to Tokyo in 31 hr 5 min via Anchorage or 44 hr 45 min on a seven-stop 1049G via India, Air Frances ten flights a day to London were almost all Viscounts, the only other London flight was Alitalias daily DC-6B. Paris-Orly Airport features two passenger terminal buildings, Terminal Sud and Terminal Ouest, The brick-style southern terminal building consists of six floors. The airside area and departure gates are located on the upper level 1, the waiting area, which features several shops as well, houses gates A1-A10 and A40-A42 and is furthermore connected to the gate areas Hall A and Hall B to each side of the building. 15 of the departure gates are equipped with jet-bridges, some of them are able to handle wide-body aircraft. The western terminal has a different layout than Terminal Sud, consisting of two floors and a area of four fingers rather than a brick-style layout. The ground level 0 features the arrivals facilities including 8 baggage reclaim belts as well as several service facilities, the departures area is located on level 1 with more stores and restaurants located here. This central departures area is connected to four areas named halls 1-4 which contain departure gates 10A-10P, 20A-20L, 31A-31F. 23 stands at this terminal are equipped with jet-bridges, with several of them able to handle wide-body aircraft. AOM French Airlines had its office in Orly Airport Building 363 in Paray-Vieille-Poste. After AOM and Air Liberté merged in 2001, the new airline, Air Lib, Orly Airport is connected to the RER B train line at Antony train station by the Orlyval automatic shuttle

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The Shameless
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The Shameless is a 2015 South Korean film starring Kim Nam-gil and Jeon Do-yeon. It is written and directed by Oh Seung-uk, who described it as a hardboiled romantic noir thriller, the Shameless made its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Joon-gil was once the mob enforcer for Jay Investment, but had out of favor when he embezzled and stole the heart of Kim Hye-kyung. Jay Investment representative Min Young-ki approaches Jae-gon and offers him US$5,000 to ensure that Joon-gil is maimed during the arrest as payback. Jae-gon reluctantly agrees, but a botched arrest sends Joon-gil on the run, Hye-kyung now works as a bar hostess to pay off her substantial debt to Jong-ho, and Jae-gon threatens his way into an undercover job as a floor manager at the nightclub she works at. Introducing himself as Joon-gils former cellmate Lee Young-joon, Jae-gon begins to spend time with the suspicious Hye-kyung, but when Joon-gil returns asking Hye-kyung for money for a potential deal, Jae-gons newfound feelings of love and jealousy rise to the surface. Oh was a prominent screenwriter in the 1990s, having written Green Fish, Lee Jung-jae was originally cast in the leading role as Jung Jae-gon, but dropped out after he was injured on the set of his 2014 film Big Match. He was replaced by Kim Nam-gil, the Shameless began filming in June 2014. The Shameless was released on May 27,2015 and it opened at fourth place in the box office, grossing ₩2.14 billion from 272,000 admissions in its first five days. By the end of its run, it had grossed ₩3,255,796,431 from 413,836 admissions, official website The Shameless at the Korean Movie Database The Shameless at the Internet Movie Database The Shameless at HanCinema

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Goryeo
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Goryeo, also spelled as Koryŏ, was a Korean dynasty established in 918 by King Taejo. This kingdom later gave name to the modern exonym Korea and it united the Later Three Kingdoms in 936 and ruled most of the Korean Peninsula until it was removed by the founder of the Joseon in 1392. Goryeo expanded Koreas borders to present-day Wonsan in the northeast, the Yalu River, two of this periods most notable products are celadon pottery and the Tripitaka Koreana—the Buddhist canon carved onto more than 80,000 woodblocks and stored at Haeinsa. The people of Goryeo also created the first metal type that was capable of printing actual books, in 1234, the oldest surviving metal movable type book. A son of a lord, Wang Geon, joined Taebong as a general. Taebong fell when Wang Geon revolted and killed Gung Ye in 918, Silla was overpowered by Goryeo and Later Baekje and surrendered to Goryeo in 935. By the late 13th century, after nearly 30 years of warfare with the Mongols of the Yuan dynasty, Goryeo lost much of its power, the name Goryeo is derived from Goguryeo of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, which the Goryeo state regarded as its predecessor. Goguryeo changed its name to Goryeo during the reign of Jangsu in the 5th century, the English name Korea derives from Goryeo. Silla, which had accomplished an incomplete unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened, the country entered a period of civil war and rebellion, led by Gung Ye, Gi Hwon, Yang Gil, and Gyeon Hwon. Gung Ye established the state of Later Goguryeo, renamed Taebong, together with the declining Later Silla, they are known as the Later Three Kingdoms. Wang Geon, who became the Taejo of Goryeo, joined Later Goguryeo as a general but later overthrew Gung Ye. Goryeo regarded itself as the successor of Goguryeo, Wang Geon, the founder of Goryeo, was a descendant of Goguryeo, and traced his ancestry to a noble Goguryeo clan. For three years after, Later Baekje dominated the Later Three Kingdoms, but after a defeat at Andong in 930, the Later Three Kingdoms era ended when Goryeo annexed Silla in 935 and defeated Later Baekje in 936. King Taejo moved the capital to his hometown of Kaesǒng, Taejo married a daughter of the Silla royal family and allowed most of their nobility to keep their lands. Even though he ruled the nation for only seven years before his son took the throne upon his death. The terminology used in the court of Goryeo was that of an empire, the capital, Gaegyeong was called Hwangdo Imperial Capital and the palace was referred to as Imperial Palace. The nation also utilized a system of multiple capitals, Gaegyeong as the main capital, the mere use of this system and the nomenclature or use of the character 京 implied that Goryeo functioned internally as an empire. Other terms, such as Your Imperial Majesty, Empress Imperial Crown Prince, Empress Dowager, however, Goryeo, when enshrining its rulers, did not use the title Emperor

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Both the top and bottom lines depict the Korean name Hong Gil-dong, which is a common anonymous name like John Doe. The top line is written as the hangul version (Korean characters), and the bottom as the hanja version (Chinese characters). In both instances the family name Hong is in yellow.